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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Heraclean Dynasty| > |Heraclius| > SH87500
Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.
|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.|, In 617, the Avars sent envoys to Constantinople for a meeting with Heraclius. He was warned it was an ambush and fled just in time to safety behind the city walls. Angry at their failure to capture the Byzantine emperor, the Avars plundered Thrace and returned to the Danube River carrying off 270,000 people.
SH87500. Gold solidus, DOC II-1 13d; Sommer 11.9.2; Tolstoi 138; Morrisson BnF 16; Hahn MIB 11; SBCV 738; Ratto -; Wroth BMC -, VF, well centered, broad flan, soft strike, flat areas, weak legends, 5th officina, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 4.477g, maximum diameter 21.7mm, die axis 180o, c. 616 - 625 A.D.; obverse dd NN hERACLIUS ET hERA CONST P P AVG, facing busts of Heraclius, on left with short beard, and his son Heraclius Constantine, beardless and smaller, each wearing a simple crown with cross on circlet, cross between them above; reverse VICTORIA AVGY E (victory of the Emperor, 5th officina), cross potent on three steps, CONOB in exergue; SOLD










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